David Letterman Quotes

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

David Letterman

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

John Cheever

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The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.

Jeff Buckley

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In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America's biggest band of the early '60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation.

Steve Erickson

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Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

Stephen Dillane

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My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.

Soledad O'Brien

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The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.

Stromae

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Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. And his crimes were even more explicitly exposed by Mikhail Gorbachev during the late '80s. Yet to many, Stalin remains more legitimate as a Russian leader than anyone since.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

Tom Felton

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Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Robert Baden-Powell

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Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Michel Onfray

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Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won't do.

Mitt Romney

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Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

Jason Bateman

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